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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT O}"'CIIANCERY, AUGUST G. The LORD CtiAtacEttott this tuornin4 tOoit his neat a' three ntimiten after nine, and gave three judgments tit nor the siighteSt interest, except to - Llse A CASE 91 , ' ►tEAT, DISTRESS. PARTE PERKINS, IN THE MATTER "01, A BANKRUPT INlr. HART P 4171, he bad formerly rnentiooed this case of 'grear distress to his. Lordship, and its tActs lay, as he thooght, in a vety itittrow compass The applicant was a Dissenting Clergyto,n, pos sessed at little koowlefigt of the tvot id, and much less of Coto ts of Law. Uis little all was cm- traiktd in the hands of the bankrupt, and he lost it, li e came I.) , tOre the Commission...vs, ivirom it %'vas represented that he was a partner of the bankrupt. Ou this point lie underwent very •ntrict examination ; but his mind bving-totany conittied, he Was unable to misWer the criestihnF with any tiecnraey. His claims to he creditor Nvere of course 'ejected. 9.e stared his piteous case to him, and he ( [l.), feeling its truth aid its importance, voluntarily., 'fvithout fee, ad voe3ted his 'muse. XVlntid his Loriiship think it proper to send this before tl►e Commissioners to ex>►rr.ine the 'case further 1 . 4 lie could assure his Lordship, that in bringing it forward he did so from a regard to humanity, and he would cheerhslly and - gratuitouslY do his utmost to serve the poor man in any gray. The Lonn CHANCELLOR was afraid he could not 'do it, unless an affidavit was made. What were the means which this Rev. Gentleman possessed ? Mr. HART said he had none ; and he had further to "nay, he could not provide a Solicitor, unless Isis Lordship was pleased to appoint him one. The LORD CHANCELLOR was still afraid he had not that appointment in his power, unless some Ott the Gentlemen at the Bar stated to him, on a Proper certificate, that this was a case of such a trie.tnre as to require his granting the request.-- 1 e had no doubt that any of the Gentlemen be bind the Bar would give this person every assist ance, on a proper statement of the case being made before them by that Gentleman. Mr. HART Was of course most ready to give' Isis assistance gratuitously to the applicant, as he thought it. a very hard case indeed ; but his Lordship was aware, that whatever he might do as a professional man, lie could not in any way prepare the case, as a solicitor must do so. The LORD CH.%NCELLOR thong:lit that followed of course from Mr. Hart's situation. Mr. HART suggested that probably his Lord ship would allow the Secretary or Bankrupts (Mr. l'ensam), whose diligence and very sound talents were every where acknowledged (and not more than justly), to write to the Commissioner, and make the proper inquiries on the subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR could i , ave no possible objrction, as he was sore Mr. Prnsam would do "so with pleasure. This was probably the better Way of settling the question. Mr. I'ENSAM intimated to his Lordship that he should do every thing he could for the applicant With the greatest pleasure. Mr. HART--I was sure you would. The Lotto CHANCFLLuii—Then you 1113), men tion this some time to the before I finish trite scut Sittings. • Mr. lIART—We are much obliged to your Lord ship for your kind indulgence. The LORD CHAN-CELLOR—Not at all. It is my dilly. The other business of the day was of no inte rest. , The important case of the Bedford Charity will be first hea rd _o-morrow. CELLOR'S COURT. The, Vlcit-CHANcELLoR took his sent this morning precisely at a quarter past ten, and pro ceeded to give _some .ludgmetits. They were of considerable importance to the parties, but not at all interesting to the public. THE LORD MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF LONDON V. THB LOUD BISHOP OF LONDON AND MR. BLOUNT. Tile circumstances of this case are as follows: — An Act of Pat Limnent passel granting . a sum of money for the erection of a new Post-office in St. Mart in's-le-Grand. The Lord Bishop of London had' nine houses in that district belonging to him as the temporal holder of the See of London.--, The ground which these nine houses were boat on was considered part of, the ground which was necessary for the new Post-office, and of course they were demanded by the Corporation of Lon don (the nominal plaintiff), and the case cafne on to he tried before the Recorder and a London Jury„ind the Jury returned a. verdict of 9,8951. for the Bishop, as an equivalent for the houses. Mr../11 , ,unt 'vas the agent of the'Bishop, and the question now before.his Honour was, whether the 9,8951. should not be expended in purehasillag new lands for the Bishop, he to have the power of granting, leases, as his predecesors had, with the usual rdterved rent. His Hondur - tbe VICE-CUM , CHLLOR-took a re view of the facts of the case, and entered fully into the meaning of. the Act of - Parliament, and observed, that the 23d, 27th, 29th, 30th, and 31st clauses of the Net gave the Court of Chan cery the power to act in this case. The Act was a special one, aid its powers- confined." He thought the claim of the Bishop a proper one „ therefore Ordered the money to be expended in purchasing other grounds for bin), as the of the diocese, with power to grant leaseS on reserved rents. Mr. BELL asked, would it not make some.dif lerence in the event of the present Bishop dying The VICE- CH ANCELLOH—` That qnestion is not before me, Mr. Bell ; therefore I am nut called -on to decide His Honour having gone through the business of the Court, will adjourn to r morrow, at three o'clock, and on Saturday morning he leaves town for Dover, being then to remain for six or eight weeks on the Continent. This is the earliest pe riod of this Court rising for many years, and mores the remarkably improved dispatch of busi ness. The Loßn CHANCELLOR sits till Saturday, the 15th instnu'•. POLICE INTELLIGEINIC'E•. DP.URY-LANE THEATRE. PLIZLIC OFFICE, BOW-STEEr.T.--.Yesteriliy Matg %vas brought into the otce, bearing at the top of a long pole a large placard, containing a copy of the advertisement which appeared in several of the Papers from Mr. G. H. Robins, as Chairman of tke Select Committee, appointed at the ic, st General Meeting of the Proprietors, announcing that the Gentlemen composing the Sub-Committee were not authorized in tinting any arrangements fur die re-opriiing of the Theatre the ensuing seakOn, and cautioning performers and other per sons from making engagements with them, they not being authorised so to do by the general Meeting of the Proprietors. _ _ _ The mart carrying the placard was • placed be fdre the Magistrate, and a person, who appeared to be a professional Gentleman, addressed the Ma• gistrate, and stated, that the man had been stand ing with the placard which he then appeared with, close to the stage-door of Drury•lane Theatre, Ivbich collected a number of persons round the door, to the great annoyance and disturbance of those resorting to the Theatre. The Magistrate, on reading the placard, ob served, that he did not perceive any thing libel lous in the matter printed, and it was Gnly with such that a Justice of the Peace had any thing to do ; and besides, the Play-houses issued bills to induce people to stop and read them, and this bill did not do any more. • The complainant urged to the Magistrate that the assemblage o f person; co ll .f , ctet l by :hat pla card might lead to a riot. The Magistrate, in teply, said, Te could not in terfere, till an offence cognizable before bisn had been committed. ‘ The collecting of the people round the Stage-dohr of the Theatre might lead to picking pockets, but still no felony had as yet been committed ; and the Magistrate, on reading the contents of the bill more particularly, ob served G. H. ROBINS" signed, and understand ing it to be Mr. Robins, the Auctioneer of the Piazza, he observed, that he had no doubt but that respectable Gentleman n ould be answerable tor any thing he put his name to, and for any thing the man did, if he was acting under his di rection ; he,, therefore, declined detaining the man; who, on being dismissed from- the Office, went and took his station again near the Stag,— door of Drury-lane Theatre, in Little Russell street, exhibitiog the placard as bd'ore. In a short time after, Mr. G.l-1. Robins entered the Office, accompanied by Mr. Ellis, an attor ney, and a young gentleman ; he presented him• self to Sir Nathaniel Conant, and requested to know the charge which had been made against his man. The Magistrate intortued him of what had passed, and that on seeing his name attached to the paper, he had said be had no doubt but that he would abide by any consequences to any thing lie put his name to. _ _ Air Robins bowed his assent, and said, most certainly lie should, and then left the Office. The tnan rein:tined about half an 1:onc longer at the stage-door of the Theatre, and then went away. [ANOTHER ACCOUNT.] • Yesterday James liuglus was brought before Sir N. CoNANT, upon the following charge made by Colonel Doug las, One of the Sub• Committee of Drury-lane management 'the public will have been apprised that great difference of opinion prevails between the Sob-Committee and a consider able majority of the Proprietors of the Theatre; and they nosy remember also, that at a General Meeting, oti the 24113 July, it was resolved amongst other matters, " that George Colman, Esq. be appointed stage-manager without controul; that the members now rein airing in the Sub-Committee (except Loud Yarmouth) Were declared utterly disqualified ; and that the Theatre should not be again opened, until the claims of the creditors were satisfactorily arranged." Yet in the face of these proceedings the Sub-Committee have engaged Mr. Stephen Kemble as their stage manager, Mist are in treaty with Performer•, with a view to open the Theatre at the usual period. In consequence of this step, the Sp ec ial C o m m itt ee thought it right to guard the actors from malting engagements with the Sub-Committee, which they arc persuaded cannot he valid; therefore they caused the following placard to be placed contiguous to the Stage-door of Di ury-Lane Theatre : " Drury-Lane Theatre.—On the part of the Select Com mittee of the Concerns of Drury-Lane Theatre, of which Committee I am Chairman, I hereby give notice, that by a Resolution of the Meeting of the Proprietors, of the said Theatre, held on the 31st. day of July last, it was determined, that the said Theatre should not be reopened ; and that ❑o Contracts or Engagements should -be made by the Sub-Com mittee of Management with Performers or other persons un til certain arrangements were prole; and that such arrange ments have not hero made, so that no Engagement or Con tiact made, or which shall he made, by the said Sub-Commit tee will be valid or effectual. Performei aor other persons concerned are therefore hereby cautioned azainst making or entering into any such contract or eogagement. " G. H. ROBINS, Chairman of the Select Committee." Whereupon Colonel Douglas, " one of the Sub-Committee who has not yet resigned," ordered the man into custody, and went himself to make good his charge for a libel. The Niagistrate observed, he had carefully looked at the printed paper, and he confessed he could discover nothing like a libel in it ; bat he added, if h.., could have taken a mistaken view of the case, he saw affixed to it the name of Mr. George !robins, and be knew enough of thiit gentleman to be as sured he would never disavow any thing that had his name attached twit; and he accordingly discharged the man im mediately. :In attempt was afterwards made by another mouher of the Sub-Committee. to make it appear as a breitch of the peace. Upon which Om' worthy Magistrate observcd, the Managers eummitted the same sort of breach every day, by putting forth their own play-bills. 130W-STREKI'. ST. CLEMENT'S UHURGll.— Yesterday a number of persons appeared before Sir NATHANILL CO NANT, Mr. BinNte, and Mr. SKETCHLEY, to Soul !nooses issued against them by Mr. Dew, the churchwarden of the parish of St. Clement Dane, for non-payment of church-rates. Several per sons residing in 'Change-court pleaded their ina bility to pay, and that they could not pay the priors'-rate; they also pleaded, that they consi dered that many of the alterations and decorations were quite unnecessary, and the church was now more like a play-house than a 'church. One gen itleman, whose house was rated at 100/. a year, wrote a letter addressed to the Magistrates, stat ing that he had no objection to pay the rate if he could be accommodated in the church, but he bad been there and had been refused a seat. Mr. Dew, the churchwarden, in answer to this, stated, that if the gentleman would pay fm a Pew in advance, and would attend the chutchs'at proper time before eleven o'eloCk . on Sunday morning, he con hi. have a seat free on - the south or north side a (lir Church. Mr.. Wanlth,-Of 'Norfolk -street, attendrti to an.• suer to beiog a (44:u - titer in several rates, am"" 1 " - ing to 3/. Ss• i Ir, Wougli objected to pAy on the ground of Ilia not having been cumulted on titre propriety of One alteration; an repairi. lie also denied that his neighbour's hat! paid. The Magistrates informed hint, that if he and his neighbours found themselves aggrieved by the church -rote, they must appeal against it, and not refuse to pay. The Magistrates accordingly adjudged him to pay the rate ; and he pledged !dins& to appeal to the Quarter Sessions against the order. The Magistrates called upon Mr. Dew, the churchwarden, to produce his rate book, in which the names of the persons complained against were to be found as defaulters. On his producing the book, it was found to contain a form, antho rizing the collection of the rate, but which was signed only by two former churchwardens; but it was not signed by the Rector, whereas the Act of Parliament directs that he shall sign it, and that it shall be a rate of the Rector, Church wardens, and inhabitants. This omission was not accounted for by the Churchwardens. It was thought by the Magistrates that the Rector might have had some objections to the rate, and had declined signing it. It was also thought that this rate operated very hardly upon poor people, and upon those who did not attend the church. The Churchwardens stated, that they had no other means of paying for the repairs which had lately taken place. The Parish OiLcers received the produce of estates belonging to the parish, which they paid to the account the poor-rates, and which eased the parishioners of about one half they would have to pay ; for, orhermise, instead of sixpenny and sevenpenny rates, they tvould have to pay shilling and tour teenpenny rates, IiATTON-GARDEN. Oppostriosi CoAcnes.—Yesterday a complaint of a very serious nature was made to tie Magis trates of this office. by ibe Proprietors of the Paddiogton Times stage-coach, stating, that about six o'clock the preceding evening, the 'limes stage-coach, belonging to Messrs. Salmon and Ball, was on its way from Paddington to the City, keeping on the near side of the road, and travel ling at a steady rate ; it was overtaken by one of Morris's opposition coaches, driven by James Parrot, who, in order to get first, and to cause an injury to the other coach - and passengers, crossed the gravel to the near side, drove on the toot-path, and then, with a dreadful crash, fell trom the high bank, - against the Times, and did considerable mischief to the coach and horses, and very much alarmed the passengers for the safety of their lives ; hut froai the sklfulness of the dt iver the coach was not overturned. The nagi st rates, on hiating the complaint ordered a sum-* 100115 to he issued tor "the matter to be brought before them on Monday. CORONER's INQUEST. DIABOLICAL CASE. An Inquisition Wiis taken on Wednesday after noon, hetore T STIRLING, EST which lasted front four o'clock till midnight, at the Hog rn Armour, Great Saffron-hill, Clcrkenwell, on the body of an illegitimate . child, the daughter of a woman named Ann Loades; alias Watts. The Jury being sworn, went to view the body, and afterwards received the following evidence : ,Esther Uarford, wife to G. liarford, coach man, sworn—she is landlady of N 0.112, Saffron hill ; about three weeks ago the mother of the deceased came to lodge in one of her apartments ; the room was taken the day before by some of her Itiends ; she came in a coach, and had a child wrapped tip in some flannel in her arms; she was taken up _stairs, and .pot to bed. Witneas had since learned., that the mother was delivered of the child on the day before she came to her house. During the time she lodged in her house she never suckled the child, and never fed it, but at intervals site would draw some milk from her breasts, when she eels spoken to about her conduct, and would give it to the child with a spoon. The deceased was not cleaned by its motfier while it was in herhouse, and appeared to he dying front Want of food and cleanliness. Wit ness spoke to the mother abottt her unnatural conduct, and she said that " the child would not live, it was no'use doing any thing to it ; she had taken the advice of a doctor, and he told her that, it would surely die, and it was no use her doing any thing for it." The mother of the deceased asked witness to let her leave the child in her care . ott Thursday last ; she promised to attend t.o it ; site went op stairs when the mother was gone out, but from the filthy state of the child, she could not touch it ; all the skin was off the extre mities of the child. Witness having a child of her own which she was suckling, she drew some milk from her breast, and gave it to the deceased with a spoon ; she was shocked at seeing the child take it in such a ravenous mauner, and called in her lodger to see its dreadful situation ; the deceased drank tie milk, and would have taken more, but she was fearful of giving ir, Daring that time the mother came in, and witness told her that her child was dying from want of food and attention ; the mother replied, that " it was no business of her's, and it would best become • her if she attended to her awn concerns." There were no clothes upon the deceased during the time witness salt' it, and the mother said that site " had trot done any thing to tire child since Monday seas Thursday. the 30th tit July, when this vonversation , 00k place. Witness of fered to fetch some clothes for the child ; the mother refused to have them, and said tier mother would get sonic at night. 'Witness insisted upon haviog the child washed, and she stood by while the mother washed it. Witness then left it, and went up again in the evening, and found the in bed ; she examined, it, and asked the mo ther if she haul fed it ; she said sire had not put it to her breast, but had milked her breasts, amid had fed the child with a spomn . with the milk.— ' The mother told witness that the reason the child was in such a state was, that wheat she was pregnant site took some slid to cause an abor tiou. The deceased died on Saturday last, and, in her opinion, from the neglect of its mother. John ; l'aunton, sfirgeon, Hatton-garden, sworn —He WAS called upon by Bit neyby, the beadle, tin Tuesday morning, about ten o'clock, to exa mine the body of_a chil:l, 'at No. 112, Saffron hill, whose death, be said, was very suspicious ; the searchers who bad examined it were very intact], disiatisfied witty its a.pf)earanile. 'fie with the beadle and saw the deceased 5 chic Was extremely emaciated, but there were 10 ternal maiks of violence; it was eitceedilir small, and nothing brit skin_ and bone. 'ri te ri d trerre entaciation to which he had allUded,ralOca to have been produced by neglect. - • landi Mary Anne Loades, of Nu. 10, Gray's In t' i t i Wife to Isaac Loades, bricklayer, sworn---‘ daughter was the mother of the deceased 5 it i f if en illegitimate child; she was delivere d on Mrinday three weeks, at her houSe, shout se djd o'clock in the eveniog, and witness's husband not know it ; witness got a coach the f4dit'`;clt day, and removed her daughter and het* bbi l " it to No. 112 Saffron-hill, which bad been li gaged on the preceding* night. It waS a ve r Y en .! 4 child. The rnother was only 20 years of The mother of the deceased w as called, a n . , ( ' Coroner told her that if she chose to give cinuel-lit she might ; but she was not bound to answe h r 8 1 4 1 ; question that would crimin a te h e rself. She t-e " tore declined giving evidence. B a ia The Coroner But - tned up the evidence; He there could be no doubt in the minds of •,1 who had heard the evidence, that the tleceoei'li been treated with very gross neglect ; but " 1,h13, should consider whether it was from th e a 'if conduct of its mother, or whether it was mere, e from her ignorance how a child should be tte to. Juryman--Has the mother had a child - bef (liC this ? The firca witness stated, that the Midwife attended the mother with t h e d ece „seirlo o tU formed her that she had hail a child before. COItoNEEL-If you (the Jury) find that the, et ., ceased died from the wiltril neglect of its tu('Ilf„I that veruict will amount to a finding of w murder, but if you conceive there has been 01.0(0, gree of neglect, though not with the wick" : 0 0 tul intent to destroy the child, you wil l , o ; c r , . propeily return a more indefioite or qualifv 2( ' diet, and no doubt the p ar ish will c onside r - .0 ease a fit one 'for a prosecution, when they areas possession of the evidence, and no verdict Of Y°s1 -g, will preclude the pari s h fr om i n stituting Pfu cut ion against the mother. • le o. The Jury after au hour's deliberate , eo ns“ ot inn gave their presentiments severallY , e i ;j e ct tound a verdict of " Died from the gross a e ; r' t of its Mother ;" and fi ve returned a verd'fat° Wilful neglect against the Mother a fter 00' titer consultation the tollowinw b verdict ‘ l " 6 de' animonsly returned :--`•:--`• The death of t he f it• ceased was produced by the gross negle ct mother."- SHOCKING CIRCUNISTANCE'' RICHMOND (AMERICA), JULY 2.---A Cerit e le r; man of gteat respectability informs us of Lc& singular event which happened a few (14s. alts' in Hanover County, on the plantation of $ I g ro LlawFs, within a few miles of this city. A 11 ,. 'e- 1.0 woman left her sucking child asleep in bey,,. 6 tit to bring water front a spring. On retttra l , " ;e oC , her humble dwelling, what was her astonifit,l" and horror at seeing a black snake coileate;lol `the neck of her infant, with its mouth °Pr e ' and apparently introdnced into that of tileieba of Words are too faint to give an adequate :`." - briec the feelings of the mother. With the wil t ' ',OOl O of horror she rushed from the cabin, cryillgi he ( for assistance, and flew into the presence °Tad mistress. There was not a man near theOl' i 0' returned with the utmost precipitation t° "e arl° bin, whence they saw the smtke departiPg',.cafe; gliding through the weeds, effected hi s e i j jeA' On examining the, poor infant, it was fo ant ioi ll " It is known that black shakes are 100(1011" otP e ; and that to satiate their appetite they v v " . o f times twine themsetres ntoond the l e g:, pp () % eii i i cow, in order to suck its te a ts. It that, allured by the smell of milk in (1 , 1 , 4 of the child, the snake coiled aronati "",t. and applied its mouth to that of the htA 4 " gripe_ is known to be very strontz, and by well as by introducing its head into th e Completely strangled the habv. It had a bite about it.—(Frina the Richmond Die oor ail ‘ v b.A on o " . 4 1e -- CHILD STEALING..THCS(I4V, a p named Count r, residing at No. 5, SP iCa o e court, Gray's-lus !ane, went out "V" a /14 4 siness, carrying her child, about a year"' ~,t o 01d, in her arms. She was met by a b " - be 3 1: genteel appearance, who pretended t he di." qutainted with her, and began to kidintre 11 Or; which she took from the mother's arms, 5,.,,„itte tied it herself along the street. Tie tooilicr Aiil osi occasion to go into a shop, the oth er tlrE ell would remain on the outside, and keeP until she returned. The unthinking til"" vo te; sewing, 'vent in and purchased what she ` i0 , 0 0 4 .1 butt when she came out, her new loud carried o ff the child. She hasteneti w ere r a state of distraction, and messengers ogitlee patched in all directions without ava il o f, 2, 1 c d the woman or child has since been 11° 1 ,40' 1 'p child was dressed in a nankeen frock , 1 /6 / 1 011,,/ tritnaled with seal.skin, and a new Pa ir v o 60. 0 hoots. The woman had on a whi te g °'y 1 c 0 0 " Or" bonnet, and shawl ; thin, an d -i ' a chel li A reward has been offered for her aPr- or the recovery of the i.:J± ............... .„. 0 . , . - .......- - _.-- ------ ---- tta re ' On TueMai,last, Mrs. D il e n C r 'a r s i t i r . o, of B ealicnrs' ' L ts sou.l" a l —_ MARRIED• w illlsto d eer ..........„.......„.„,,, Yesterday, at Allhallows, harking, Mr', ! d d'i l n of RarnStion Park, ES3eX, to Elizabretli, twr l'ererlkipper,Esq. of Mincing-lane. _I.vit131,:),:;0:i: DIED. 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